Erin O'Donnell

Legal Rights for Rivers

Competition, Collaboration and Water Governance

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Four rivers, in New Zealand, India and Colombia, have recently been given the status of legal persons. To assess what it means to give rivers legal rights and legal personality, this book examines the form and function of environmental water managers, organizations with legal personality, using the USA and Australia as examples.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 304g
• ISBN-13: 9780367584160
• ISBN-10: 0367584166
• Artikelnr.: 69893075

Autorenporträt

Erin O'Donnell is a Senior Fellow and sessional lecturer at the University of Melbourne Law School, Australia. She is also an independent consultant on water markets to the World Bank and has worked on water governance in the public and private sectors for more than 15 years.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Constructing the environment in law: making it count 3.
Environmental Water Managers: examples of indirect legal personhood for
rivers 4. Just another user: environmental water managers in Australia 5.
Partnership as success: the EWMs of the Western USA 6. Competing narratives
and the paradox of the EWMs 7. Rivers as legal persons: competition and
collaboration 8. Legal rights for rivers: a cause for celebration or
concern?